aimed at improving efficiency and productivity in the European higher education sector. We assess the change in productivity … non-parametric Malmquist productivity index by benchmarking the non-science disciplines and the science disciplines of … both countries separately against a common frontier. Given the lack of statistical inference of non-parametric productivity …

Does the concept of General Purpose Technologies help explain periods of faster and slower productivity advance in …, Britain, France, Germany and Japan and proceeds to evaluate the hypothesis of a productivity bonus as postulated by many … there was no generalized productivity boost from electrical power diffusion as postulated by many existing GPT models. The …

A method for analyzing productivity convergence based on frontier production functions is proposed. It is examined …